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Get Thee Behind Me, Santa!

[This is a repost from a couple of years back---with a new picture and some sweet new editing.]

Don't we Christians hate the fact that that while we're trying to have Christ be the focus of Christmas, everyone else wants the primary personality of the Christmas season to be Santa Claus?

And doesn't that make Santa the anti-Christ?

Ho, ho, ho, indeed! The gall of The Dark Prince pretending to be jolly!

And Santa being Satan certainly explains a lot. For one, it explains
the red suit. It also explains the flying reindeer. Remember how scary
the flying monkeys were in The Wizard of Oz? Clearly, making
mammals fly is an earmark of the deeply malevolent. And seriously: What
would you rather have flying over you---a 50-pound monkey, or
a 500-pound reindeer? That wide-brimmed hat the Wicked Witch of the
West wears might protect her from monkey droppings, but is it really
going to help against a team of reindeer flying overhead?

And elves. Please. An elf is just a gnome with better P.R. And
everyone knows gnomes live to create havoc. I used to live in a house
in the woods that became infested with gnomes. Believe me, that is not
something you want to live through. And if it ever does happen to a place you're living, do not use Gnome Motel. That product is useless. Those little creeps built on
to the Gnome Motel we left out for them. They put in a little jacuzzi,
and a deck. The workmanship was awful. And it led to all these little
booze bottles being scattered all around the place.

Terrible. We finally had to call in a pack of mad rottweilers.

Boy. Talk about getting the job done.

Anyway, the point is that Santa is Satan. Look how close their names are!
And Santa/Satan isn't the only diabolic anagram going on with Mr. Red
Nose's name, either. Rearrange the letters spelling "Saint Nick," and
what do you get? That's right: sick taint. And Kris Kringle? Try Sir Grinlekk---which totally sounds like it could be the name of one of Harry Potter's wicked wizards, doesn't it? So I think that settles it.

Santa Claus. Satan's cause. Satan's claws. It's not even subtle.

Plus, everyone knows that the Devil's whole thing is to make people
believe the opposite of the truth. And, as we all know, Hades is about
as far south as south gets. So where does "Santa" live? But of course: as far north as north gets.

Pffhhht. Any child is trickier.

Speaking of children, do I even need to mention how wrong it is to
teach our children to associate getting great things for free (Santa!)
with breaking and entering (Satan!)? How long is it before any
Christmas-inculcated kid with any initiative at all thinks to himself,
"Hmm. Santa. Down chimney while people sleep. December 25. Me. Through
window while people are on vacation. Now."

The Christmas season is upon us. Let us become ever more vigilant
against the evil that tries to distract us from its true meaning.
Christmas is about celebrating the incarnation of God---period. And
that is why I, for one, will be prepared throughout this entire
Christmas season to at any given moment stand straight,
point accusingly, and cry at the top of my lungs, "Get thee behind me,
Santa!"